"I think the notion of a single-player experience has to go away," Yerli said.

"However, I'm not saying that there will be no single-player experiences... it could be it's called Connected Single-Player or Online Single-Player instead," he added.

Yerli did not provide an example of what he meant by connected single-player games, though games like Dark Souls and ZombiU already offer single-player experiences where users are aware of other connected players with limited interactions.

"Online and social can reignite single-player in a new type of context and provide benefits that will make you want to be a part of a connected story-mode rather than a disconnected story-mode," he continued.

"Sure, if the technology forces you to play a traditional single-player game online, that doesn't make sense but if it's offering actual benefits to be online then you want to be part of it."